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Nascimentoa* aCurso de Pós-graduação em Ciências de Florestas Tropicais, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia – INPA, Avenida André Araújo, 2936, Petrópolis, CEP 69067-375, Manaus, AM, Brazil bCurso de Pós-graduação em Biodiversidade Tropical, Universidade Federal do Amapá – UNIFAP, Rodovia Juscelino Kubitschek, Km 02, Jardim Marco Zero, CEP 68902-280, Macapá, AP, Brazil *e-mail: [email protected] Received: October 28, 2014 – Accepted: December 18, 2014 – Distributed: February 29, 2016 (With 4 figures) Abstract The present study aims to compare the allometry and wood density of Goupia glabra Aubl. (Goupiaceae) in two different terra-firme sites in Amazonian forest. A total of 65 trees ≥ 10 cm DBH was sampled in both sites, with 39 trees in Nova Olinda do Norte (NOlinda, near the Amazon River) and 29 trees in Apuí (near the southern edge of the Amazon forest). Except for the relationship between DBH (diameter at breast height) and Ht (total height), allometric relationships for G.glabra differed significantly between sites. Apuí had lower intercept and greater slope for log10 (DBH) versus log10 (Hs – stem height), and, conversely, greater intercept and lower slope for log10 (DBH) versus log10 (Ch – crown height). The slope differed significantly between the sites for DBH versus dC (crown diameter), with greater slope found for NOlinda. Mean basic wood density in Apuí was 8.8% lower than in NOlinda. Our findings highlight the variation in adaptive strategy of G. glabra due to environmental differences between sites. This is probably because of different canopy-understory light gradients, which result in differentiation of resource allocation between vertical and horizontal growth, which, in turn, affects mechanical support related to wood density. We also hypothesize that differences in soil fertility and disturbance regimes between sites may act concomitantly with light. Keywords: allometric relationships, functional traits, phenotypic plasticity, tropical tree species. Variação entre-sítios na alometria e densidade da madeira de Goupia glabra Aubl. na Amazônia Resumo O presente estudo tem como objetivo comparar a alometria e a densidade da madeira de Goupia glabra em dois diferentes sítios de floresta de terra firme na Amazonia. Um total de 65 árvores com DAP ≥ 10 cm foi amostrado em ambos os sítios, sendo 39 árvores em Nova Olinda do Norte (NOlinda, próximo ao rio Amazonas) e 29 em Apuí (próximo à borda sul da Amazônia). Exceto para a relação entre o DBH (diâmetro a altura do peito) e a Ht (altura total), as relações alométricas para G. glabra diferiu significativamente entre os sítios. Apuí apresentou menor intercepto e maior inclinação para a relação log10 (DBH) versus log10 (Hs – altura do fuste) e, ao contrário, maior intercepto e menor inclinação para log10 (DBH) versus log10 (Ch – altura da copa). A inclinação diferiu significativamente entre os sítios para DBH versus dC (diâmetro da copa), com maior inclinação encontrada para NOlinda. A densidade básica média da madeira in Apuí foi 8.8% menor do que em NOlinda. Os resultados deste estudo destacam a variação na estratégia adaptativa de G. glabra devido às diferenças ambientais entre os sítios. Isto é provavelmente consequência dos diferentes gradientes de luz o que resulta na diferenciação na alocação de recursos entre o crescimento vertical e horizontal o que, por sua vez, afeta o suporte mecânico relacionado à densidade da madeira. Nós também levantamos a hipótese de que as diferenças em termos de fertilidade e regimes de distúrbios entre os sítios podem agir concomitantemente com o regime de luz. Palavras-chave: relações alométricas, características funcionais, plasticidade fenotípica, espécies arbóreas tropicais. 1. Introduction In tropical forests light is one of the most limiting the tree (height and diameter) and crown size (both vertical resources for tree growth. The ability of a tree to assimilate and horizontal dimensions), i.e., the tree allometry – the light energy depends on the relationships between the size of spatial distribution of its components along the vertical 268 Braz. J. Biol., 2016, vol. 76, no. 1, pp. 268-276 Allometry of an Amazonian tree species axis (King, 1996; Poorter et al., 2006). Since there is a in terms of soil type and light condition. Our central gradient of light availability ranging from a low light hypothesis was that G. glabra would have distinct allometric level in the understory to a high one in the forest canopy, relationships related to environmental site conditions, and allometric differences are expected among tropical tree that this may be reflected in its wood density. species because of their differences in light requirements (Chazdon and Fetcher, 1984). In this sense, low-statured 2. Methods and shade-tolerant understory tree species, which are adapted to low light environments for establishment and 2.1. Research sites growth, tend to have proportionally wider and shallower This study was carried out in two areas of commercial crowns in order to (i) increase their ability to assimilate timber exploitation in the Brazilian Amazon - one located light along the horizontal light gradient and (ii) avoid in the municipality of Apuí, called Fazenda Nova Era self-shedding. Conversely, shade-intolerant pioneer (59°56’ W; 7°18’ S), and the other located in the municipality species, which only grow in gaps and/or are highly light of Nova Olinda do Norte (hereafter termed NOLinda), called demanding, invest proportionally more in height growth, Fazenda Apapazinho (58°22’W; 3°48’S). Both study sites increasing crown depth while reducing crown horizontal are in the state of Amazonas and are about 400 km apart expansion (King, 1996; Thomas, 1996; Sterck et al., 2001; along a north-south gradient (Figure 1). Apuí is located Alves and Santos, 2002). near the southern edge of the Amazon forest in the “arc Interspecific variation in allometry may be related to of deforestation,” while NOlinda is located in central wood density because density correlates with mechanical Amazonia near the Amazon River. support (King, 1981; Niklas, 1993; Putz et al., 1983). At both sites the average annual temperature is about Light-demanding pioneer species in gaps need to invest 27°C and the mean maximum and mean minimum are more in growth to reach the canopy rapidly and to better 31°C and 23°C, respectively, while annual precipitation compete with other tree species. In contrast, shade-tolerant ranges from 2200 to 2300 mm with two distinct seasons species allocate more energy to survival through greater (INMET, 2009, for a 30-year historical series). Precipitation investment in mechanical support. Therefore, there is a is concentrated between December and April, when the tradeoff in biomass allocation (and, by inference, wood mean monthly rainfall is over 200 mm. However, NOlinda is density) due to the different costs of support between these more uniformly wet, whereas Apuí has a more pronounced two extremes. Pioneer trees require less investment in decline in precipitation between June and August. Moreover, wood tissue to sustain their crown, giving them more rapid the sites differ in terms of vegetation, soils and geological growth and lower support costs, whereas shade-tolerant formation. The predominant vegetation type in Apuí is species invest more in building tissues (and thus have open montane wet forest and the soils are mainly Acrisols higher wood density), decreasing their susceptibility to (red-yellow latosol in the Brazilian system; Santos et al., physical damage, which ultimately results in a greater 2011). In Nova Olinda do Norte, the dominant vegetation survival advantage (Putz et al., 1983; Thomas, 1996; is classified as evergreen lowland tropical moist forest and King et al., 2006; Poorter et al., 2006). the predominant soils are Xanthic Ferralsols (allic yellow Although the patterns of differentiation in architecture latosol in the Brazilian system), which are heavily weathered, and wood density among functional groups of trees are acidic, and very poor in nutrients such as P, Ca, and K. widely recognized, studies assessing the variation in allometry and wood density of a single species growing 2.2. The studied species in different environmental conditions are rare. Individual The genus Goupia is monotypic with just Goupia glabra trees within a given species have been found to have Aubl. (Goupiaceae). G.glabra is a canopy semideciduous lower wood density (Nogueira et al., 2007) and shorter species with ascending branches and cylindrical stem. height for any given diameter (Nogueira et al., 2008a) in The bark is gray, with chipped lengthwise lenticels. The bark southern Amazonia as compared to central Amazonia. is 1 cm thick and comes off in large slabs. G. glabra To our knowledge, the present study is the first to develop has a continuous pattern of flowering and fruiting, but species-specific allometric equations for populations flowering peaks usually occur at the end of the dry season of a species with parameters specific to each of these and fruiting peaks in the early rainy season. The fruit is a subregions. At the community level and at different spatial globose berry from 3 to 6 mm in diameter. Seed number scales, several studies have shown significant correlations ranges from one to five per fruit. Seeds are approximately between wood density and environmental variables that 1.5 mm long and 1 mm wide and are dispersed primarily are affected by variation in altitude, latitude and soils by birds (Ribeiro et al., 1999; Ferreira and Tonini, 2004).
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